this study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (rcs) following a complex determiner phrase (dp) by persian-speaking learners of l2 english with different proficiency and working memory capacities (wmcs) is affected by semantic priming. the semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the dps in the complex d...

This study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (RCs) following a complex determiner phrase (DP) by Persian-speaking learners of L2 English with different proficiency and working memory capacities (WMCs) is affected by semantic priming. The semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the DPs in the complex D...

Dutch, unlike English, contains two gender-marked forms of the definite article. Does the presence of multiple definite article forms lead Dutch learners to be delayed relative to English learners in the acquisition of their determiner system? Using the Preferential Looking Procedure, we found that Dutch-learning children aged 1 ; 7 to 2 ; 0 use articles during sentence comprehension in a fashi...

The ability of second language (L2) learners to use structural information during sentence processing has been questioned by Clahsen and Felser (2006a; 2006b) in their shallow structure hypothesis. They maintain that L2 learners process target language by using semantic information derived from the argument structure of the verb, not by using structural information such as a syntactic gap. The ...

This study investigate the process of thinking required by individual learners in collaborative learning and the process of collaborative learning from the perspective of information processing and suggest a specific process of collaborative information processing with information externalization to make effective collaboration performance. In particular, the body of research mainly focused on ...